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He was a little, shabbily-dressed man, with a brown face, and a twinkling smile. "Where are the sheep?" Kit asked. "We'll send t' band for them presently. Are you gan t' bid?" "I don't know until I've seen them. What about their quality?" "Weel, it might be better; they're gifts, you ken. There's a young ram might suit you; he's true Carlside strain." "I don't know how you got him then.
There she sat, as stately and composed as though we had never heard that odd-sounding cough, from which her throat must have been even then sore and rough. Kind, gentle, shabbily-dressed Mrs Forrester was immediately conducted to the second place of honour a seat arranged something like Prince Albert's near the Queen's good, but not so good.
She was surprised at the ease and grace of these shabbily-dressed ladies, and the refinement of their surroundings the design of the furniture, the colour of curtains and carpet, the china, the books, the pictures, all of which bespoke tastes and habits not common in the parish. "I must apologise for this intrusion," she began nervously. "I have a most unpleasant task to perform.
Elegant Parisians and the select of Brussels glanced at the military Englishman and his handsome daughter with some slight touch of supercilious surprise one has no right to find shabbily-dressed young women in the golden temple and it is scarcely necessary to state that it was from her own countrywomen the young person in alpaca received the most chilling glances.
During the week she saw shabbily-dressed idlers sauntering along the shore, men in broad-brimmed straw hats and flannel shirts, women who sat on the worn grass of the sloping bank, doing nothing, with the dreamy eyes of a cow at pasture. All the peddlers, handorgans, harpists; travelling jugglers, stopped there as at a quarantine station.
One thing appeared very certain, that the same persons who had despised the shabbily-dressed lawyer's clerk, no longer regarded me with cold eyes as a poor relation, but were among the first to overwhelm me with civilities; and, for a while, I was intoxicated with the adulation I received from the world and its smooth-tongued votaries.
Beside the brook stood a shabbily-dressed man, apparently fifty-five or sixty years old. He wore an old rusty black coat and a soft hat with a hole in it. His face was tanned and partly covered with a beard. The man was acting in a manner to excite anybody's curiosity. He carried a stick in his hand, and was poking around in the water with it.
The shabbily-dressed girl was looking for some one. She watched her father's play carefully she marked her card with unfailing precision; but she performed these duties with a mechanical air; and it was only when she lifted her eyes to the great shining plate-glass doors which opened into this dangerous Paradise, that any ray of feeling animated her countenance.
Lee soon came back without a word, and, having caught and saddled his horse, rode away with the stranger, who was on foot. He was a large, shabbily-dressed man, with black curly hair; this was all they could see of him, for his back was always towards them. "Never saw Bill take on like that before," said the neat man. "That's one of his old pals, I reckon.
On being answered in the affirmative, the shabbily-dressed man said, 'Then I have something for ye; I have been a-watching for ye for the last three days, but ye didn't come out; missed yer this morning: 'ere it is; and he thrust a folded paper into Hubert's hand. 'What is this? 'Don't yer know? he said with a grin; 'Messrs. Tomkins & Co., Tailors, writ twenty-two pound odd.
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